On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:29, Miles Thompson wrote:Jason,
> Hard to say - bugbear is making the rounds, and it's a pernicious little > beastie. > > It not only uses an existing address list, it has a built-in SMTP mailer > and synthesizes not only "To:" addresses, but also "From:" addresses.
> Norton's popping up that bugbear warning about 7x each day right now. I'm > using Eudora with the "Use Microsoft viewer" option switched off - thus > nothing happens and NAV is quarantining them.
It just amazes me how dumb these commercial products can be. It's not that hard for it to recognise that:
a) warnings should never be sent to a mailing list
b) some viruses use a 'random' from address and thus no warning should be sent
to the 'sender'
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It doesn't send anything to the mailing list; I'm talking about warnings popping up on my system. Nor did it send a warning to the sender. After all that would be counterproductive for a virus. <g>
Maybe we should saw this off now - I replied chiefly because I thought it v. unlikely that Hugh would have sent a buggy email to the list.
Cheers - Miles
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